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“Remember, Chiyo, geisha are not courtesans. And we are not wives. We sell our skills, not our bodies. We create another secret world, a place only of beauty. The very word “geisha” means artist and to be a geisha is to be judged as a moving work of art.”
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“He suspended thinking; his mind was a bloody vacancy, like a room in which there has been a butchering.”
― The Killer Angels
― The Killer Angels
“Deciding to wait, Scott sat down with a pint away from the bar at a corner table and lit a cigarette. The clientele in there on Sunday afternoon were the same as most other afternoons. From middle-aged to old men, drinking and cursing at the world like it was the last bus which had just left the stop without them.”
― The Elephant Tree
― The Elephant Tree
“Bring me Mother Julian’s Scroll within two weeks, or I’ll get that guttersnipe Leni prosecuted for attempted murder. She won’t survive long in prison.”
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
“She quickly took a drink to hide her mouth. That mannerism had never changed: whenever Sarah was embarrassed, after she'd told a joke and was waiting for the laughter, or when she was afraid she'd talked too much, she would go for her mouth as if to cover nakedness - with Cokes or popsicles as a child, with drinks or cigarettes now. Maybe all the years of splayed, protruding teeth, and then of braces, had made her mouth the most vulnerable part of her for life.”
― The Easter Parade
― The Easter Parade
Tori’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Tori’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
259 books
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31 friends
207 books
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106 books
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56 books
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6 books
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